Personally to the Members of the C.L.D. from Comrade
Lenin

As I am submitting to the C.L.D. tomorrow (18/1 L) a draft
decision concerning a General Planning Commission, I herewith present to
you, for your information, a draft of the main point of this decision and
a preliminary list of members
(drawn up after consultation with Comrades Rykov and
Krzhizhanovsky)[1]
.
Please prepare your amendments or counter-proposals for the meeting of the
C.L.D. on 18/II.

A General Planning Commission is being set up under the C.L.D. to work
out an integrated state economic plan on the basis of the electrification
plan approved by the Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets and to effect
general supervision of this plan’s realisation.

The primary economic tasks, especially those which have to be carried
out in the near future, in the course of 1921, are to be elaborated by the
General Planning Commission or its subcommission in the greatest possible
detail, full account being taken of prevailing economic conditions.

Notes

[2]At the meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence on February 18 no
decision on setting up such a commission was passed. A shorthand record of
the meeting was not kept. Only Lenin’s brief notes of the debate and his
notes for a winding-up speech have come down to us (see Lenin
Miscellany XX, pp. 20-22). Judging by these notes and the article
"Integrated Economic Plan" (see Vol. 32 of this edition, pp. 137-45) the
speakers against a plannin commission were Y. Larin, V. P. Milyutin,
N. Osinsky an A. I. Rykov. This question was referred to the Council of
People’s Commissars. The present draft written by Lenin was incorporated
completely in the "Regulations on the State Planning Commission", which
were endorsed by the C.P.C. on February 22, 1921, together with a list of
commission members drawn up by Lenin (see Lenin Miscellany
XX, p.. 24). The State Planning Commission was set up on the basis of
the GOELRO (the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia) and
headed by G. M. Krzhizhanovsky.